Jim Fear elaborates a bit [https://jimfear138.blogspot.com/2017/03/clearing-up-some-confusion.html] on his earlier post on hard SF. This paragraph caught my eye: > I view what we’re trying to do here in military terms. Maybe I’ve been listening to Sabaton too much lately, which is entirely possible, but this is how I’ve been conceptualizing it. There is, as I said, a crumbling edifice that I’ll dub Tradpub (yes I stole that from Brian Niemeier shaddap). Tradpub is a kingdom on the decline. It r…
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One of the more interesting tracks I ran into while taking a weekend long detour through prog rock and prog metal was the following bit by a musician called Plini – “Selenium Forest”.…
Ok. My tastes – as noted elsewhere – are varied. I spent most of this last weekend listening to Eric Raymond’s “Intricate Fire [https://www.pandora.com/stations/share/3152960282592930962]” Pandora list. It’s self described as “I’m a long-time jazz fusion fan who has more recently gravitated to virtuoso guitarists and a harder, more metal-edged sound.” and is rooted in bands like Liquid Tension Experiment, with odds and ends of Satriani and harder metal popping in. This also explains why my colle…
One of my favorite bands is the “power metal” band Sabaton, who theme most of their albums around war and warfare. The most recent album, The Last Stand [https://infogalactic.com/info/The_Last_Stand_(Sabaton_album)], features desperate last stands. Some were indeed “last” – as in the stand of the 300 Spartans at Thermopylae, some were “merely” desperate. History This song, the title track for the album, concerns itself with the last stand of the papal Swiss guard [https://infogalactic.com/info/…
Having been introduced to the Darkwave/Goth band the Crüxshadows courtesy of John Ringo’s books, it was now off to the races to find more of their stuff, and so I stumbled, not into Ethernaut, from which “Winterborn” and “Citadel” were pulled, but one of their remix albums Frozen Embers. There are a few interesting retakes here, but my favorite in many ways is the only remix I like of Return – the Assemblage 23 remix. Since Ethernautwent with a Trojan War theme, and given their penchant to refe…